Our 9th Annual Symposium and CLE was a huge success. Thank you to all of our wonderful speakers, sponsors, guest, and TTU law!

February 20, 2017: EPJ Announces Volume IX Book 2 and Volume X Book One Student Publications

The Board of Editors for Volume IX of the Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal is pleased to announce the selection of the following Comments for publication. Please join us in congratulating these 2L Staff Editors on this outstanding accomplishment!

Volume 9, Book 2

CATCHING THE GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW: THE IMPACTS OF RETROACTIVE RECOGNITION OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ON COMMUNITY PROPERTY DIVISION

Kaitlin Gates

WHO GETS THE DOG WHEN THE MARRIAGE GETS ‘RUFF’: COMPLICATIONS ARISING FROM THE CLASSIFICATION OF FAMILY PETS AS TRADITIONAL PROPERTY IN DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS

Christopher G. Rhodes

RULE 41F: TARGETING A GUN TRUST LOOPHOLE

Taylor A. Smith

Volume 10, Book 1

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN MENTAL ILLNESS AND FIREARMS IN PROBATE COURTS

Michael Bell

MAKING A PIPE DREAM A REALITY: THE LEGISLATION ESTATE PLANNERS NEED TO GET MARIJUANA ASSETS OUT OF LIMBO

Sergio E. Herrera

A WOMAN IN LIFE, BUT A MAN AFTER DEATH: PROTECTING THE POSTMORTEM IDENTITIES OF TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS

March 22, 2016: EPJ Wins the "Outstanding Law Review Article" Award from the Texas Bar Foundation

Please join us in congratulating the Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal at the Texas Tech University School of Law for publishing the article which received the Outstanding Law Review Article Award from the Texas Bar Foundation for the article authored by Turney P. Berry and Paul S. Lee entitled Retaining, Obtaining, and Sustaining Basis, published in Volume 7, Book 1 of the EPJ.

Turney Berry is a partner at Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs LLP in Louisville, Kentucky where he is the leader of the firm’s Trusts, Estates & Personal Planning Service Team. Berry is a member of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, where he previously served as Regent and President of the ACTEC Foundation.

Paul Lee is a Senior Regional Wealth Advisor with The Northern Trust Company located in New York City. Prior to joining Northern Trust, Lee was a National Managing Director at Bernstein Global Wealth Management and a Partner at Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP.

The Outstanding Law Review Article Award honors a law review article published by one of the Texas Law schools. In addition to recognizing the co-authors, the Texas Bar Foundation will provide a $1,000 donation to a scholarship fund at the Texas Tech School of Law in honor of Mr. Berry and Mr. Lee.

This award marks the second time EPJ earned the Outstanding Law Review Article Award in its 8 years of existence, as Tech Law’s very own Professor Bryan Camp received the award in 2010.​

The Board of Editors for Volume VIII of the Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal is pleased to announce the selection of the following Comments for publication. Please join us in congratulating these 2L Staff Editors on this outstanding accomplishment!

Our seventh Annual Expo and CLE was a huge success, with over 100 registrants joining us for the day in the Lanier Auditorium at the Texas Tech Law School. The speakers included nationally renowned law practitioners and professors, our very own Faculty Advisor Gerry W. Beyer, and a few of our Staff Members, including Editor in Chief Ashley Snell and Executive Comment Editor Aubrey K. Noonan . Full article here.